Constituency
124. Margherita
Community mirrorAssam · Assam Assembly Election, 2016
AS-MARGHERITA
BJP 55.8%won by 16.6%INC 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 16.6%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.1% to 55.8% of the vote here (+18.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 89.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 14.3% to 83.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,63,088
Turnout
83.8%
Valid votes
1,36,740
Margin
22,744
16.63%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1BHASKAR SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP76,36555.8%
- 2PRADYUT BORDOLOIIndian National Congress · INC53,62139.2%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,1371.6%
- 4NIDAN PURTYIndependent · IND1,3321.0%
- 5BISHWANATH SINGHAIndependent · IND1,3061.0%
- 6UMESH BORAIndependent · IND1,2890.9%
- 7PURNA CHETRIIndependent · IND6900.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +31.7%
- BJP share
- 37.1% → 55.8%
- INC share
- 52.1% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- 69.6% → 83.8%